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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really

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